Smallville

Isn't it time to move beyond these mental trials?

When you decided to return to your training,

i assumed you were ready.

- Tell me what you need from me. - The test of a true hero

The test of a true hero

is to struggle with feelings of loss, not to avoid them.

I've come this far, and i'm not looking back. I can do this.

I need you to pull an address off of queen industries' database.

It's an engineer that i fired six years ago. His name's winslow schott.

- What happened? - He snapped.

He started bringing toys to work.

Then he started hiding explosives inside the toys.

What are you doing in enemy camp?

I've purchased controlling interest in luthorcorp.

Everybody down!

How does it feel to not be in control for once?

- Untie me right now. - After this little fella

clangs his cymbals together 53 times...

it'll be the last sound you ever hear.

Pieces of a toy bomb were found in the wreckage.

- Lex deserved to die. - This is murder.

This is justice.

Oliver crossed the line. He killed lex luthor.

You're making a big mistake.

What the hell were you so afraid of?

You.

- Maybe we should start over. - It's too late for that now.

You need help.

Not everybody believes in the second coming.

Is there any part of the person i used to know still there?

I took a look in the mirror, and you were right.

I've been running away from myself for a long time now.

But now i know who i really am.

Let's set up a perimeter. And somebody get me a damn sight line.

We don't know how many hostages are inside.

You, get me a barricade. Last thing we need is anyone getting in our way.

Let's go! Let's move it!

Don't bother pulling the trigger.

Did i miss him?

If by "him," you mean me, barely.

Not you, the blur.

He was long gone by the time i got here.

I was just trying to call you.

- From a pay phone? - Apparently.

How'd you get here so fast, anyway?

My guy at met p. D. Didn't leak this until a few minutes ago.

We all can't be as fashionably late as lois lane.

Hello, sailor.

- What'd you just say? - Nothing.

You should get your hearing checked.

Hot stuff.

Smallville 904

Synchro: Flolo

god, i'm dragging ass today.

I should go for coffee. No, actually, i should really get a b12 shot.

I have to keep up with clark.

You got to remember what the general always said.

On certain days, you wear certain underwear.

And today, of all days, why you decided to wear.

You're in a good mood today.

Would be in an even better one if our black-clad hero in hiding

would have stuck around long enough for a quote.

We'd at least know what the hell happened back there.

What happened back there is, the blur saved all those hostages, end of story.

There's always more to the story, grasshopper. Word on the street is

the bomber isn't the one who flipped the switch. It was on a timer.

Why would the bomb be on a timer?

I don't know. I'm not a mind reader.

Why would you take hostages and not make any demands?

No voicemails? No e-mails?

Just be a big girl and get over the fact that the blur downgraded you

from confidant to sidekick to nobody.

Computer's frozen again.

Doesn't help that stupid intern jeff

took the last stupid maple bar rom the stupid doughnut box.

Here you go.

My eyes are bigger than my stomach this morning.

No. Okay, i love you.

A bump in blood sugar might help you from punching someone.

True. Give me that.

Whyever whoever did what he did,

he couldn't have picked a less-interesting place to have done it.

- Run-of-the-mill textile factory? - Run-of-the-mill textile factory

which is a subsidiary of queen industries.

You think it would be enough to get oliver's attention.

That only matters if ollie's sober enough to give a crap.

Yeah, you might be right.

What'd you say?

What?

What?

Thanks for meeting me. I know you've been busy.

What am i thinking right now?

No clue. So far, it's only been lois.

I know that my wall of weird is so three upgrades ago,

but i've spent enough time

digitizing the strange and unexplained in my life

to know that you don't just catch e. S. p.

So the question is, how do we know

that this isn't just your superhearing on the fritz?

As loud as lois is, even she can't speak with her mouth closed.

Good point.

Okay, i'll see what i can dig up,

but seriously, unless your warranty's expired,

why don't you just check in with dear old dad?

Are you okay?

Yeah, i'd just like to bypass lois' inside voice

from here on out. I'm fine.

I'll keep you posted.

I can't miss this meeting, or i'm gonna get fired.

This isn't the life i wanted.

I'll show them on monday.

Should have listened to janet...

once a cheater, always a cheater.

Reading people's thoughts.

You said my trials had begun. Is this one of them?

I've planted within you the seeds for this trial,

designed to self-manifest when most needed.

An event must have happened to trigger it,

some kind of error or mistake in judgment.

I don't understand.

I saved everyone in that factory.

Assumptions are flaws

inherent in the human instincts you have adopted,

but they are beneath you.

What you have yet to nurture is your kryptonian intuition.

You shouldn't underestimate humans.

Neither should you.

Being able to discern why humans truly behave as they do

will help you to better protect them.

This ability is only temporary.

You must learn to focus, clark.

Perception

can be the difference between life and death.

I know loose lips sink ships,

but tight ones don't do a hell of a lot of good, either.

Chatty cathy, we just need one answer.

You were actually a hostage, right?

This one's getting us nowhere.

Do not let them find out.

They can't send me back.

My baby needs me.

It's okay. You can talk to us.

We're not i. N. s.

I am sorry.

I saw a man.

Let me get this straight. You're saying the guy who took you hostage

was short and fat

but also... tall.

Way taller than your boyfriend there.

Thin...

thin like a rail.

This is so exciting.

I wonder who will talk to me next.

The fbi? Maybe interpol.

It's clear that this is the most excitement you've had probably ever.

Now, you can mislead us,

but interfering with a police investigation

to keep yourself in the limelight will only land you in jail.

Is that understood?

Sorry.

I didn't see anything.

I don't care how cute he is.

I'd better not get fired for this.

I haven't seen you eat a thing all day.

Owed you from earlier, low blood sugar and all.

Look at this.

- Thanks for taking care of me. - Wait.

Now we're even.

What else did you find out?

Mr. Murphy, our mystery man's puppet, just got out of surgery.

He's still unconscious.

I've hit enough dead ends for today.

Really no reason for us to keep hanging out here, then, huh?

You're absolutely right.

Why don't we just call it a night?

That's good. I have plans.

Lifetime and some chunky monkey or rocky road.

Maybe both.

I was hoping that we could grab something to eat tonight

once we finished up. You know...

you said yourself i hadn't eaten all day.

Is clark kent asking me out on a date,

like a date date?

I'm not saying we should go on a date.

Just something...

like a date.

As sweet as that notion is, smallville,

this is metropolis on a saturday night.

We ain't getting in anywhere without a reservation.

Except maybe the truck rally downtown,

- but there's no way he'd ever. - We could probably still get tickets

to the monster-truck rally down at the coliseum.

- It doesn't start for a few more hours. - Shut up!

I'll meet you there.

Standard protocol...

two cars at the beginning of the night, no drama at the end of it.

Barkeep, i'm gonna need...

something cold, tall, wet, sexy.

Put a...

put one of these in it, will you, please?